Tim Davis

Tim Davis (born Duane Timston Davis; Davis was the older of two sons born to Fredrick Duane Davis and Marion Naomi Stimson. According to an article published in 1942 by the Harrisburg Telegraph, the brothers' transformation from newsboys to thespians occurred in 1934 when a party of passersby led by songwriter Gus Kahn encountered the pair hawking papers in front of The Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard. Advised to report the next morning to United Artists, the brothers did so, and shortly thereafter made their uncredited screen debut in the 1934 Eddie Cantor musical comedy Kid Millions.

A rare opportunity to transcend the mostly uncredited and generally insubstantial film work that followed that debut came Davis's way in 1939 with the West Coast premiere of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. In a production boasting "infallibly accurate [...] characterizations" from a cast "too numerous to mention," several reviewers nonetheless made a point of citing Davis's work,

Personal life and death On December 14, 1942, roughly 4 months after the release of Bambi (and a year after U.S.'s entry into World War II), the trade publication Broadcasting reported that Davis had resigned from NBC Hollywood and joined the United States Navy. Davis later married Barbara Louise Ressel on September 27, 1953. Davis died at age 58 in San Luis Obispo on October 30, 1982. Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937) - Tommy Kent (uncredited) Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937) - Boy Sitting at Table behind Georgia LaRue and Philip McMahon in 'Club Spanky' scene (uncredited) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) - Schoolboy (uncredited) The Little Ranger (1938) - Member of Butch's gang (uncredited) Aladdin's Lantern (1938) - Boy Sitting Behind Gary (uncredited) Gambling Ship (1938) – Nick Feathered Pests (1939) - Kid Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939) – Jackie Captain Spanky's Show Boat (1940) - Blonde Kid Behind Butch (uncredited) Our Town (1940) - Joe Crowell Nice Girl? (1940) - Newsboy (uncredited) Citizen Kane (1941) - Copy boy (uncredited) Bambi (1942) - Adolescent Thumper and Adult Flower (voice)